A companion to seals in the Middle Ages / / editor, Laura Whatley.

• TeilnehmendeR: Whatley, Laura J.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden,, Boston : : BRILL,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Reading Medieval Sources 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (431 pages)

A Companion to Seals in the Middle Ages is a cross-disciplinary collection of fourteen essays on medieval sigillography. It is organized thematically, and it emphasizes important, often cutting-edge, methodologies for the study of medieval seals and sealing cultures. As the chronological, temporal and geographic scope of the essays in the volume suggests, the study of the medieval seal—its manufacture, materiality, usage, iconography, inscription, and preservation—is a rich endeavour that demands collaboration across disciplines as well as between scholars working on material from different regions and periods. It is hoped that this collection will make the study of medieval seals more accessible and will stimulate students and scholars to employ and further develop these material and methodological approaches to seals. Contributors are Adrian Ailes, Elka Cwiertnia, Paul Dryburgh, Emir O. Filipovi, Oliver Harris, Philippa Hoskin, Ashley Jones, Andreas Lehnertz, John McEwan, Elizabeth A. New, Jonathan Shea, Caroline Simonet, Angelina A. Volkoff, and Marek L. Wójcik.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction: Approaches to Medieval Seals and Sealing Practices / Laura J. Whatley -- Materiality and Seals -- Analysis of the Materiality of Royal and Governmental Seals of England with a Focus on the Great Seals (1100–1300): Methodology and Findings / Elke Cwiertnia , Adrian Ailes and Paul Dryburgh -- Material Analysis of Seals Attached to the Barons’ Letter to the Pope / Paul Dryburgh , Elke Cwiertnia and Adrian Ailes -- Does Size Matter? Seals in England and Wales, circa1200–1500 / John A. McEwan -- Historiography and Seals -- Fragments of the Past: the Early Antiquarian Perception and Study of Seals in England / Oliver D. Harris -- Medieval Armorial Seals in The National Archives (UK) / Adrian Ailes -- Seals in Bureaucracy and Diplomatic -- The Seals of the Judges of the Hippodrome: Drawing Data from Seals without Context / Jonathan Shea -- Administration and Identity: Episcopal Seals in England from the Eleventh to the Thirteenth Century / Philippa Hoskin -- Power and Aspiration on Medieval Seals -- Power, Family, and Identity: Social and Personal Elements in Byzantine Sigillography / Angelina Anne Volkoff -- Two Seals of Muskinus the Jew (Moshe born Yeḥiel, d. 1336), the Archbishop of Trier’s Negociator / Andreas Lehnertz -- ‘Creatio Regni’ in the Great Seal of Bosnian King Tvrtko Kotromanić / Emir O. Filipović -- Elusive Seal Owners and Users -- Reconsidering the Silent Majority: Non-Heraldic Personal Seals in Medieval Britain / Elizabeth A. New -- Seals of the Wives of Silesian Knights in the Pre-Hussite Age (1259–1414) / Marek L. Wójcik -- Visual Culture and Seals -- Coins as Seals in Lombard Italy / Ashley Jones -- The (Re-)Use of Ancient Gems and Coins: the Presence of Antiquity in Medieval Sigillography / Caroline Simonet -- Back Matter -- Select Bibliography.